Contexts of Nursing, 7th Edition

• Prepares students for professional practice with a realistic overview of the contemporary nursing profession
• Unique Australian and New Zealand content—not available elsewhere
• Offers a range of views and voices, providing a unique and contemporary focus on Australian and New Zealand healthcare contexts
• Useful for all levels of study, from new student nurses to those advancing their studies
• Reflective questions and exercises within each chapter to stimulate critical thinking, learning and deep personal reflection
• Case studies and other pedagogical features enhance learning

New to this edition

• New chapter on patient perspectives and person-centred care in nursing
• New chapter on nursing and the quest for care quality and patient safety
• New chapter on nursing and family violence
• New chapter on simulation learning in nursing
• New chapter on nursing and the environment
• New digital resource (small group activities)

Students and Instructor resources on Evolve:
Group activities

1. Presenting nursing: A career for life
2. Visioning the future by knowing the past
3. Ethics in nursing
4. An introduction to legal aspects of nursing practice
5. Cultural safety in nursing
6. Key concepts informing nursing: caring, compassion and emotional competence
7. Patient perspectives and person-centred care in nursing
8. NEW Nursing and the quest for care quality and patient safety
9. Becoming a critical thinker
10. Power and politics and the practice of nursing
11. Reflective practice: what, why and how
12. Interprofessional learning and working
13. Nursing and social media 6069 Going to approach
14. Nursing practice and digital health interventions: A focus on improving care
15. Social justice, health disparities and equity in nursing
16. Nursing and responses to family violence
17. Rural and remote nursing
18. Primary healthcare and nursing
19. Simulation learning in nursing
20. Preparing for and making meaning of clinical placement
21. Research in nursing
22. Becoming a nurse leader
23. Nursing and the environment
24. Global health and nursing

Debra Jackson, AO, RN, CommNsgCert, DipAppSci(Nsg), BHlthSc(Nsg), MN(Ed), PhD, FCNA, SFHEA, Professor of Nursing, Sydney Nursing School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Ann Bonner, PhD, MA, BAppSc(Nurs), RN, MACN, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Australia Kidney Health Service, Metro North Health, Australia, Jacqueline Bloomfield, RN, BN, MN, PGDip (Midwifery), PGDip (Professional Healthcare Education), PhD, SFHEA, Professor of Nursing Education, University of Sydney; Honorary Professor, Queen’s University Belfast and John Daly, RN,PhD,DrNurs(Hon.), FACN, FAAN, FFNMRCSI, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Sydney; Emeritus Professor, University of Technology, Sydney; Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia